700,000-Year-Old Stone Tools Point to Mysterious Human RelativeNational Geographic - Michael GreshkoSomeone butchered a rhinoceros in the Philippines hundreds of thousands of years before modern humans arrived—but who? Stone tools found in the Philippines predate the arrival of modern humans to the by
Ravens Are Evolving, and Not in the Way You'd ExpectNational Geographic - Jason BittelInstead of branching into new species, raven groups experienced something called "speciation reversal." A new study shows that the common raven is anything but commonplace in its evolution. Using DNA taken
Humans Were Not Smarter Than Neanderthals, We Simply Outlasted ThemScienceAlert - SARAH KAPLAN By the standards of the Paleolithic age, members of Homo neanderthalensis were the height of sophistication. These ancient hominins ranged across …
Sex, disease, and extinction: what ancient DNA tells us about humans and NeanderthalsThe Verge - Rachel BeckerTwo new genetic analyses help explain the unexpected roles Neanderthals play in modern human life — influencing everything from hair color to mental health. The new research also adds to evidence that
Ancient Viruses Are Buried in Your DNAThe New York Times - By CARL ZIMMERIn July, scientists reported that a strange protein courses through the veins of pregnant women. No one is sure what it’s there for. What makes this protein, called Hemo, so unusual is that it’s not made
How Do Darwin's Finches Change Their Beak Sizes So Quickly?Forbes - GrrlScientist“Our group published a paper a couple years ago investigating epigenetic variation among species of Darwin’s finches [ref]. In that case we did find that methylation variation existed among species and
Yes, humans are still evolving. Here's how you can tell.Popular Science - Sara ChodoshThe nice thing about bacteria is that they multiply really fast. This is inconvenient if they happen to infect, but useful if you want to see how evolution works. Put antibiotics on a Petri dish with bacteria,
Aesthetic Evolution In The Animal WorldNPR - Alva NoëAt the heart of Richard O. Prum's new book The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World — and Us is a bold idea: "... that animals are not merely subject
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Science In Neanderthal DNA, Signs of a Mysterious Human MigrationThe New York Times - By CARL ZIMMERWith fossils and DNA, scientists are piecing together a picture of humanity’s beginnings, an origin story with more twists than anything you would find at the movie theater. The expert consensus now is
Ancient humans may have been mothers to some Neanderthals earlier than we thoughtThe Verge - Rachel BeckerAn early wave of modern human ancestors interbred with Neanderthals between 470,000 and 220,000 years ago, a new DNA discovery from an ancient Neanderthal thigh bone suggests. That’s much earlier than
The Mystery of Homo naledi - Ricochet Sciencericochetscience.com - mwindelspecht A new human species possessing traits of both ancient hominids and modern humans has been found to have lived far more recently than scientists …
The Evolution of the Superbugsricochetscience.com - Devin Windelspecht In August 2016, a woman in her late 20s arrived in a hospital in Reno, Nevada, carrying a particularly deadly strain of the bacteria Klebsiella …
Humans Are Driving a New Burst of Evolution - Including Possibly Our OwnScienceAlert - DARREN CURNOE The unprecedented impact that humans are having on the planet is well known to us all. Scarcely a day passes by without a media report or two on the …
Fossil of pregnant sea creature changes understanding of how reproductive system evolvedThe Guardian - ReutersFish-eating reptile Dinocephalosaurus, which lived about 245m years ago, gave birth to live babies rather than laying eggs An extraordinary fossil unearthed in southwestern China shows a pregnant long-necked
Finding the Speed of Evolution in a Study of Bird BeaksThe New York Times - By STEPH YINWhen the ancestors of Darwin’s finches arrived on the Galápagos two million years ago, they gained access to a world of new morsels, untapped by other animals. In a relatively short period, 14 species
Early Meteorite Bits Reveal Clues About Solar System's Evolutionspace.com - Sarah Lewin Many meteorites found on Earth are remnants of one titanic solar-system collision that took place more than 460 million years ago. But for the first …
Scientists Just Announced Our Best Shot at Ending Antibiotic Resistance to DateScienceAlert - Fiona MacDonald Scientists have developed a molecule that reverses antibiotic resistance in multiple strains of bacteria at once, making it one of the most promising …
What These 3.66 Million-Year-Old Footprints Tell Us About Our Human AncestorsTIME - Justin WorlandNewly discovered footprints of five human ancestors that roamed the Earth 3.66 million years ago suggest that members of the Australopithecus afarensis species may have kept multiple mates at the same
Proteins Solve a Hominin Puzzle - Archaeology Magazinearchaeology.org - NIKHIL SWAMINATHAN Around 40,000 years ago, modern humans made their way into Europe, sweeping through the continent and, eventually, driving to extinction our close …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Neanderthals and Homo sapiens were hooking up over 100,000 years ago.discovermagazine.com When researchers looked at the genome of a Neanderthal from Siberia, they saw DNA that did not belong. “No matter how we tried to fix it, it didn’t go …
Caesarean births 'affecting human evolution'bbc.co.uk - Helen Briggs The regular use of Caesarean sections is having an impact on human evolution, say scientists.
Friendship Why very smart people are happiest alonebigthink.com - Robby Berman In a 2016 published study about how our ancestral needs impact our modern feelings, researchers uncovered something that will surprise few among the …
Play button A Groundbreaking 30-Year Old Evolutionary Experiment Is Still Going StrongWIRED - Stephanie Bucklin Early in his career, the decorated biologist Richard Lenski thought he might be forced to evolve. After his postdoctoral research grant was canceled, …
Ebola Evolved Into Deadlier Enemy During the African EpidemicThe New York Times - By CARL ZIMMERThe Ebola epidemic that tore through West Africa in 2014 claimed 11,310 lives, far more than any previous outbreak. A combination of factors contributed to its savagery, among them a mobile population,
Cultivated Carp 'Reverse Evolve,' Grow Scales BackPopular Science - Coby McDonaldThe dense protective layer of scales covering the body of the common carp makes the fish a pain to eat. But centuries ago, clever European monks managed to breed this quality out, creating a cultivated
Humanity Mysterious Branch of Humanity Possibly Discovered | Live ScienceLive Science A group of humans migrating out of Africa some 40,000 to 70,000 years ago mingled with an as-yet unknown branch of humanity, researchers say. Modern …
Gonorrhea Is Becoming Untreatable, U.N. Health Officials WarnNPR - Rebecca HersherWe are running out of ways to treat gonorrhea, the World Health Organization announced today. The U.N. health agency released new guidelines warning doctors that it no longer recommends an entire class
What do aliens look like? The clue is in evolutionphys.org - Matthew Wills Speculating about what aliens look like has kept children, film producers and scientists amused for decades. If they exist, will extra terrestrials …
